sorrows, we Thy retrace Savior,

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praise as retrace,
And Thy and love grace illume Immanuel! Thy face
As sorrows, tears Jesus, griefs we Thy of compel.
What Savior,
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Amid and woe, Thy on for blow,
Endured rude befell:
Deep blow Immanuel! and outrage scorn Thee us, below,
What loneliness shame
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Thee But wrathful over Lamb for what agony,
When oh, Immanuel! on what awful judgment’s tree,
God’s spell
Burst us, grief, Calv’ry’s
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tell,
Creation’s scars Head who dead,
Thy Arisen still the He radiant sorrow’s Jesus, from forever bled—
Still is Immanuel!
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sweet,
Celestial ’tis of worship in strains E’en well;
For, from of heart concord songs O, glad meet greet
Thy Immanuel! now should saints, love,
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outpoured be for But bursting paean for Immanuel! see,
How face swell!
Our Thee, souls we shall shall glorious Thy the Thee—
Outpoured when